The Centriq 2400 is the culmination of over four years of work and
investment, which according to the experts in the semiconductor
industry we have talked to, easily took on the order of $100 million to $125
million to make happen ­– remember there was a prototype as well as the
first generation Amberwing chip – and probably several hundred chip
engineers to design. And now, there is another credible Arm server processor
in the datacenter fray alongside the ThunderX and ThunderX-2 from Cavium and
the X-Gene 1 and X-Gene 2 from Applied Micro.

2018 and beyond is shaping up to be a very interesting time for the server chip
market. Couple this with Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM (see a great article
from Jon Masters here), and I can’t wait for what is next.